Freethinking is not prejudice or bigotry.

It is looking at new ideas, new information and re-evaluating your stand without bias. It is rejecting your own conclusions for new ones even when they may be diametrically opposed to what have been your guiding principles. Truths, values and realities will change as we increase our knowledge. One who knows enough has ceased to think and has lost the mantle of freethinker. Engage others rationally. Show some respect. Nothing is sacrosanct, nothing is above question for the question begets understanding

Yesterday I got a chance to attend a debate at the Kenyan Institute of Mass Communication. It was organized by a group known as Atheists in Kenya. It was to be a debate on atheism in general and the existence (or lack of) of God...

In the 21st century, the word ‘science’ means ‘solutions’. Given that today is the World Science Day for Peace and Development, this platform offers us a chance share our ideas for a better world and reiterate, once more, that science is solutions for all the world’s material problems....

Mater Hospital in Nairobi wears its beliefs on the sleeves of its cassock. Mater is after all a Catholic funded hospital. It has the ghosted image of a cross on its badge to prove it. It has a cross and not a crucifix which Catholics prefer when celebrating their saviourís moment of triumph....

In February, Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina earned a place at the centre of the emotionally fraught debate over homosexuality in Africa. In this far-ranging interview, Mr. Wainaina offers a provocative critique of some of the cultural objections to homosexuality....